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Satya Nadella, Chief of Microsoft, on His New Role
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Satya Nadella, Chief of Microsoft, on His New Role

Q. What leadership lessons have you learned from your predecessor, Steve Ballmer?

Networking Nature
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Networking Nature

Conservation is for the first time beginning to operate at the pace and on the scale necessary to keep up with, and even get ahead of, the planet’s most intractable...

Half of Americans Want to Live in a Smart City With Driverless Cars
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Half of Americans Want to Live in a Smart City With Driverless Cars

Nearly half of Americans want to live in a city where all vehicles are driverless, and a third think that might happen in the next 10 years, according to an Intel...

At Newark Airport, the Lights Are On, and They're Watching You
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At Newark Airport, the Lights Are On, and They're Watching You

Visitors to Terminal B at Newark Liberty International Airport may notice the bright, clean lighting that now blankets the cavernous interior, courtesy of 171 recently...

Can 'robotic' Pills Replace Injections?
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Can 'robotic' Pills Replace Injections?

The adage "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning" is destined for a futuristic makeover.

What Can ­nite Liberals and Tea Partyers? The Nsa
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What Can ­nite Liberals and Tea Partyers? The Nsa

Hoyt Sparks says he has no use for liberal Democrats and their "socialistic, Marxist, communist" ways.

Last Call For Bad Calls
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Last Call For Bad Calls

Technology will soon make officials at high-level sports events as obsolete as elevator operators, their skill set as useful as knowing how to make a wood tennis...

The Timekeeping Tech that Keeps the Olympics Fair
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The Timekeeping Tech that Keeps the Olympics Fair

"On your marks, get set, Go!" might work to start a race on the playground but in the highest-stakes world of the Olympic games, where every thousandth of a second...

Obama's Big Plan to Protect Businesses from Cyberattack
From ACM News

Obama's Big Plan to Protect Businesses from Cyberattack

It's been a long time coming, and some experts say it isn't enough.

Everything We Know About How the Nsa Tracks People's Physical Location
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Everything We Know About How the Nsa Tracks People's Physical Location

Glenn Greenwald is back reporting about the NSA, now with Pierre Omidyar's news organization FirstLook and its introductory publication, The Intercept.

Medicine Gets ­p Close and Personal
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Medicine Gets ­p Close and Personal

Leroy Hood, president of the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) in Seattle, Washington, likes to talk about what he calls P4 medicine: health care that is predictive...

A Peek at Google's M&a Ambitions
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A Peek at Google's M&a Ambitions

Don Harrison became Google's head of mergers and acquisitions about a year ago.

Groups Step Up Efforts to Develop More Female It Workers
From ACM TechNews

Groups Step Up Efforts to Develop More Female It Workers

The National Center for Women in Technology has partnered with the Million Women Mentors to boost female participation in the technology industry. 

The Growing Need to Recycle Electronics
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The Growing Need to Recycle Electronics

e-Cycling allows reclamation of valuable materials, and helps prevent pollution.

Target's Heating and Refrigeration Company Gave Hackers the Key to Customer Data
From ACM News

Target's Heating and Refrigeration Company Gave Hackers the Key to Customer Data

The massive Target data breach is a symbol of the need for tighter data security in big retail chains, but it's also still an evolving story in its own right.

Virtual Games Bring Pinball to New Audiences
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Virtual Games Bring Pinball to New Audiences

The flashing lights, cool sound effects and high-speed bouncing ball action have made pinball simulators a hugely popular genre of video game, not to mention big...

New 'Mask' APT Campaign Called Most Sophisticated
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New 'Mask' APT Campaign Called Most Sophisticated

A group of high-level, nation-state attackers has been targeting government agencies, embassies, diplomatic offices and energy companies with a cyber-espionage...

This Iphone-Size Device Can Hack A Car, Researchers Plan To Demonstrate
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This Iphone-Size Device Can Hack A Car, Researchers Plan To Demonstrate

Auto makers have long downplayed the threat of hacker attacks on their cars and trucks, arguing that their vehicles' increasingly networked systems are protected...

IBM and PARC to Design Sensitive Electronics for Military that Shatter to Dust on Command
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IBM and PARC to Design Sensitive Electronics for Military that Shatter to Dust on Command

Two U.S. companies are joining a military research program to develop sensitive electronic components able to self-destruct on command to keep them out of the hands...

New Surveillance Technology Can Track Everyone in an Area for Several Hours at a Time
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New Surveillance Technology Can Track Everyone in an Area for Several Hours at a Time

Shooter and victim were just a pair of pixels, dark specks on a gray streetscape. 
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